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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2017-06-05 16:49:39 +1000
committerShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>2017-06-13 10:18:01 -0700
commitcc27b0c78c79680d128dbac79de0d40556d041bb (patch)
tree1f32d4acd29d825eecc1aef90d423cdacea8121c /drivers/md/raid1.c
parentMerge tag 'xtensa-20170612' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa (diff)
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md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()
If mddev_suspend() races with md_write_start() we can deadlock with mddev_suspend() waiting for the request that is currently in md_write_start() to complete the ->make_request() call, and md_write_start() waiting for the metadata to be updated to mark the array as 'dirty'. As metadata updates done by md_check_recovery() only happen then the mddev_lock() can be claimed, and as mddev_suspend() is often called with the lock held, these threads wait indefinitely for each other. We fix this by having md_write_start() abort if mddev_suspend() is happening, and ->make_request() aborts if md_write_start() aborted. md_make_request() can detect this abort, decrease the ->active_io count, and wait for mddev_suspend(). Reported-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> Fix: 68866e425be2(MD: no sync IO while suspended) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/raid1.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/raid1.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index e1a7e3d4c5e4..c71739b87ab7 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -1321,7 +1321,6 @@ static void raid1_write_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
* Continue immediately if no resync is active currently.
*/
- md_write_start(mddev, bio); /* wait on superblock update early */
if ((bio_end_sector(bio) > mddev->suspend_lo &&
bio->bi_iter.bi_sector < mddev->suspend_hi) ||
@@ -1550,13 +1549,13 @@ static void raid1_write_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);
}
-static void raid1_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
+static bool raid1_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
{
sector_t sectors;
if (unlikely(bio->bi_opf & REQ_PREFLUSH)) {
md_flush_request(mddev, bio);
- return;
+ return true;
}
/*
@@ -1571,8 +1570,12 @@ static void raid1_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
if (bio_data_dir(bio) == READ)
raid1_read_request(mddev, bio, sectors, NULL);
- else
+ else {
+ if (!md_write_start(mddev,bio))
+ return false;
raid1_write_request(mddev, bio, sectors);
+ }
+ return true;
}
static void raid1_status(struct seq_file *seq, struct mddev *mddev)